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at the fame time, it is highly proper to be careful 

 againfl adopting the vifionary recommendations of 

 modern theories, who, upon hypothefes of their 

 own, hold up wild fyftems of delufion, which are 

 apt to miflead the credulous and do great injury. 



True judgment feems to lie in fele£ting fuch 

 objects for imitation, as are either the refult of 

 well attefled experiments, or that come from fuch 

 refpectable authority as cannot be doubted. 



In the profperity of agriculture, there are three 

 perfons who have a natural tye upon each other : 

 the gentleman of landed interelt — the farmer — 

 and the labourer. Their degrees of interefl are 

 different, but their connection muft be perma- 

 nent, as they cannot fubfifl without the aid of 

 each other; Protection is due from the firfl — 

 humanity from the fecond — and obedience from 

 the third. Sound policy dictates a due obfer- 

 vance of this mutual obligation, and the prefer- 

 vation of a proportionate and jufl fcale in refpecl 

 to every thing which mutually affects the par- 

 ties : a departure from this, will, in the firft 

 inftance, prove very detrimental to one of them, 

 and cannot ultimately be of any advantage to the 

 others. 



Admitting this, as every impartial man muft, 

 and comparing the advanced price of provifions, 



with 



